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I use Internet Explorer, and to me, my site looks perfect (http://avril-l.org/index2.html)

but I have been informed that the link in the left column are all blue, and some of the picture are not alligned.

can anyone help?

Melissa

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it was taking so long to load that i gave up. what i did see didn't look all that bad, but since it was taking so long in firefox i didn't want to bring up explorer and wait even longer.

in general though, i've found that it's a lot easier to primarily test in firefox, then check ie and work around the crazy bugs that show up there -- coding for firefox makes you write better code because part of firefox's purpose is to promote web standards, and using the standards means it's more likely to work correctly in all browsers. ie on the other hand handles a lot of bad code.

if you end up writing bad code that works in ie, you're going to have a lot more work to do cleaning that up for other browsers than if you wrote good code in firefox and just had to work around the bugs in ie.

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what takes long to load? i just changed hosts yesterday and my site loads really fast now (http://avril-l.org/index2.html)

the problem is the Stats column on the left with the blue links... don't you see them?

the only problem is that i don't have firefox, so I cant do anything about editing... would there be a way that you could take a look at my codes?

thanks!
Melissa

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Download firefox

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it was way faster this time, so maybe it was my connection before.

firefox is free and available on pretty much every platform, so if you're interested in how your site looks there you really should download it and install it. if you use it much at all you'll probably find you like it better than internet explorer anyway.

i looked at your css file and you have a problem in there: the scrollbar-track-color line has a stray } at the end of it, which is making your entire css file invalid. you actually have a lot of issues with your css, though most of them probably aren't causing any real problems (for example, the fact that none of those scrollbar properties are actually part of css). anyway if you remove the extra } from your css your link colors will probably work.

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thank you very much misterhaan! Removing that } fixed it! I can't believe I over looked that.

Melissa